Poetry
A Japanese form of poetry comprised of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
At the conclusion of Macbeth, this character defeats (and beheads) Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
What is personification?
The two components of an independent clause.
What are the subject and predicate?
If you want to sound fancy, you could call this type of novel a bildungsroman.
What is a coming of age novel?
Similar to a paragraph in prose, this is a unit of several lines that is often separated from others by a blank line.
What is a stanza?
Finish the line: "Double, double..."
What is "Toil and trouble"?
The caring Joe and the abusive Mrs. Joe, the ambitious Macbeth and the cautious Banquo, and even Buzz and Woody from Toy Story are examples of this type of character dynamic.
What are foils?
These types of verbs convey a state of being or existence, as seen in "Perry seems uneasy."
What are linking verbs?
A literary movement centered in a specific neighborhood of New York City that amplified Black voices and featured Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Nellie Rathbone Bright, among others.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A 14-line poem, often with an ABBAABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare wrote several different genres of plays; tragedies end in death while comedies end with this ceremony.
What is marriage?
Charles Dickens uses this when he places St. Paul's Cathedral and Newgate Prison in opposition to one another in Great Expectations.
What is juxtaposition?
These types of verbs move the action from the subject to a direct object, as seen in "Billy kicked the ball."
What are transitive verbs?
While this movement's name may conjure images of roses and Valentine's, writers emphasized any strong emotion, not just love.
What is Romanticism?
Poetic verse that does not feature a distinct/regular rhyme scheme or meter, such as the poems in Long Way Down.
What is free verse?
Shakespeare's most frequent meter featured five sets of these two-syllable units.
What is an iamb?
Macbeth's final soliloquy features several examples of type of repetition that focused on the initial sound in consecutive words:
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death."
What is alliteration?
Ugh! This part of speech is helpful if you need to convey a strong emotion or reaction.
What is an interjection?
Some scenes in Great Expectations are clearly influenced by this literary movement, whose prominent works include Dracula, Frankenstein, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
What is Gothic literature?
A poetic technique in which a thought extends beyond one line (or stanza) into the next line(s) (or stanzas).
What is enjambment?
When Shakespeare wrote "All the world's a stage," he could have also been referencing the name of this theatre, his primary performance space in London.
What is the Globe?
The plot pyramid is more accurately described as Freytag's Pyramid, named for the 19th century writer Gustav Freytag, but the concept's origins can be linked back to this Greek philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
You may know them as FANBOYS, but the technical term is this.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Like Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, this literary movement explores fractured (or repackaged) narratives, the arbitrariness of rules, and rejection of authority.
What is postmodernism?